Fact-a-day

Out of service

August 31st, 2010 by admin

One third of black urban South African adults agree that providers of essential services like teachers, nurses and police should be allowed to strike. For white people, the proportion is one quarter (FutureFact 2009)

This week’s theme: Public servants

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2 Responses to “Out of service”

  1. Wayne Lesch says:

    By keep on showing the divide between racial lines on something this close to people’s hearts, you are driving a wedge between them. What was the motivation on why this question was asked? And was there no other way in showing something interesting? I.e. Possibly Income (low Income versus high Income).

  2. Joe Wolhuter says:

    Good day,
    Is it possible to know the size of the samples for these percentages of 33% and 25% to enable me to work out the statistical significance of this finding ? I presume the sample sizes are at least 50 to enable analysis as large samples.
    Regards, Joe Wolhuter

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